MORGANTOWN — For the 10th year in a row, U.S. Cellular partnered with the Mountaineer Boys and Girls Club to hold an art competition for Black History Month. The winners were announced Thursday evening, at the Boys and Girls Club.
Mayor Bill Kawecki helped present the awards to three winners for first, second and third place. Each student was presented with a gift card, with first place winning $500.
Students were asked to draw a role model or someone that was important to the civil rights movement.
Andrew Reabe, the Woodburn Site Coordinator, helped organize the contest with U.S. Cellular. “Each year the kids get an opportunity to submit their drawing, and then it is hung up in U.S. Cellular stores across the area, and people that go into those stores are able to vote, and each year we host a little award ceremony to honor the hard work of our members that competed in the competition,” Reabe said.
The club members split up into groups and were served pizza after the ceremony.
